Title: Respectable lives: social standing in rural New ZealandAuthor: Hatch, ElvinPublished: University of California Press, 1991Subjects: Anthropology | CulturalAnthropology | Southeast AsiaPublisher's Description: Where do we get our notions of social hierarchy and personal worth? What underlies our beliefs about the goals worth aiming for, the persons we hope to become? Elvin Hatch addresses these questions in his ethnography of a small New Zealand farming community, articulating the cultural system beneath . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Sherpas: reflections on change in Himalayan NepalAuthor: Fisher, James FPublished: University of California Press, 1990Subjects: Anthropology | CulturalAnthropology | South AsiaPublisher's Description: James Fisher combines the strengths of technical anthropology, literary memoir, and striking photography in this telling study of rapid social change in Himalayan Nepal. The author first visited the Sherpas of Nepal when he accompanied Sir Edmund Hilary on the Himalayan Schoolhouse Expedition of 196 . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: In the midst of life: affect and ideation in the world of the TolaiAuthor: Epstein, A. L. (Arnold Leonard)Published: University of California Press, 1992Subjects: Anthropology | Asian Studies | CulturalAnthropologyPublisher's Description: The Tolai are among the most distinctive of Papua New Guinea's indigenous peoples. For all their success in the pursuit of modernity, the Tolai remain traditional in their attitudes toward death, the cultural elaboration of which colors almost every aspect of their existence.In his new book, A. L. E . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Refiguring American film genres: history and theoryAuthor: Browne, NickPublished: University of California Press, 1998Subjects: American Studies | Film | CulturalAnthropologyPublisher's Description: This collection of essays by leading American film scholars charts a whole new territory in genre film criticism. Rather than assuming that genres are self-evident categories, the contributors offer innovative ways to think about types of films, and patterns within films, in a historical context. Ch . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Friends, brothers, and informants: fieldwork memoirs of BanarasAuthor: Kumar, Nita 1951-Published: University of California Press, 1992Subjects: Anthropology | CulturalAnthropology | South AsiaPublisher's Description: "Why was Banaras such a mystery to me when I arrived in 1981? Was it ironically because I was an Indian and expected to have a privileged insight into it?"In this unusually personal, evocative account of her fieldwork experiences, Kumar tackles the dilemma of how a Western-trained Indian intellectua . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Greek athletics and the genesis of sportAuthor: Sansone, DavidPublished: University of California Press, 1992Subjects: Classics | Sports | CulturalAnthropologyPublisher's Description: How is sport in contemporary society related to sport in earlier civilizations? Why is the expenditure of energy involved in sport considered exhilarating, while the equivalent expenditure of energy in other contexts can be dispiriting? David Sansone offers answers to these questions and advances a . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Pathways of power: building an anthropology of the modern worldAuthor: Wolf, Eric R 1923-Published: University of California Press, 2001Subjects: Anthropology | CulturalAnthropology | SociologyPublisher's Description: This collection of twenty-eight essays by renowned anthropologist Eric R. Wolf is a legacy of some of his most original work, with an insightful foreword by Aram Yengoyan. Of the essays, six have never been published and two have not appeared in English until now. Shortly before his death, Wolf prep . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Reason and passion: representations of gender in a Malay societyAuthor: Peletz, Michael GPublished: University of California Press, 1996Subjects: Anthropology | CulturalAnthropology | Gender StudiesPublisher's Description: This book provides a historical and ethnographic examination of gender relations in Malay society, in particular in the well-known state of Negeri Sembilan, famous for its unusual mixture of Islam and matrilineal descent. Peletz analyzes the diverse ways in which the evocative, heavily gendered symb . . . [more]Similar Items